5 Cheapest places to eat in Dumaguete City, #2 is pretty awesome!

Dumaguete City or also known as the "City of Gentle People". It is a small city where you can find different colleges and universities. It is the city where beautiful places like resorts are located and the safest place to stay, cheapest restaurant to eat and affordable hotels and hostels to spend your over night. If you are planning to visit here for the first time, below are the information where you can find cheapest place where you can dine and experience the delicacies of Dumaguetenous. 

If you want to spend 50 to 100 pesos for your meals we can recommend better place for you to try. This information is based on personal observation and experiences. We recommend secured place and safest place for you to eat.

1. Food Net - Known for its name that has good quality foods for affordable price. They have 3 branches within Dumaguete area already, they have 10 or more menu's everyday and they never missed giving free soup, cold water and a free hot coffee every morning. The place is clean with friendly and accommodating staff. Their foods are good for everyone and Delicious at its best. With your 50 pesos, you can buy 2 different menus, 2 cup of rice and soup. Its all worth it for a good meal.

2. Puto Chocolate at Tiange - Every morning, people had their breakfast in this place. Not a typical breakfast for everyone but it is a delicious and healthy breakfast. This place is located at the back of super market. Different blocks offering almost the same foods, puto and chocolate. Travelers always includes this place for their itinerary. You can have your break fast for only 30 pesos and you can have the best meal ever.

3.Tocinohan sa Acsat - It was our first day in this place, we are looking for best place for dinner where we can have a bbq or grilled pork. Someone told us to visit the Tocinohan at Acsat, it is a place located in front of the ACSAT School. Its a tocinohan indeed, where you can find 3 different place offers the same foods. They have bbq sticks or they called it Tocino, a hot sauce and Puso. Its a rice covered with coconut leaves. With your 50 pesos, its all worth it for one good meal.

4. Baroroy - It was not so familiar for everyone, they just opened last year. They have affordable foods, clean place and good surroundings. Its a nice place to have your meals, breakfast, lunch or dinner.

5. Boulevard Tempurahan - Not for breakfast or lunch, because they are not open during day time. They open from 5pm onwards until 11 pm maybe. They don't have rice or any menu's to choose, you have fill your stomach with their delicious street foods. They have Tempura, Squid Ball, Squid roll and of course, one of our exotic foods the Balut. Its is located just few meters away from the Port. Every night you can find people there spending their time together with their family and pets. Its a nice place indeed!

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5 exotic foods in Philippines that you might want to try,#3 is unbelievable!

Philippines is known for its beautiful and amazing feature of natural tourist destination and delicious foods as well that you will never regret once you tasted it. When it comes to foods, Filipino people are very proud of their own recipes and delicacies and don’t forget the exotic foods that will fulfill your travel experiences.

Exotic foods are commonly define as unusual and not commonly found in every table for dine? Not all of us love to eat exotic foods as we consider it as gross, not delicious foods and we might not used to it as we afraid of eating of something that we are not so sure of.

In Philippines there are several foods that are considered as exotic that are made of unusual recipes or cooked from unknown living things and these kinds of foods you might encounter some it along the way when you travel in Philippines.

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Below are the lists of top 5 exotic foods in Philippines that your might want to try

1.       Balut – It’s a common exotic foods or street foods in Philippines. It is a boiled fertilized duck egg with 10 to 18 days old. Not so taste good for the first time but you will get addicted to it when you used to. Balut is commonly sold during night time; it should be fresh and hot when selling it. The better when its hot because the taste is different from the one that is not. Why is it considered as exotic? For some, its kind of gross foods. When you eat it you can see how the how the embryo looks like.

2.       Sea Urchin -  A sea creature that looks like a porcupine and it is covered with long and short pines to protect against predator. There are two different sea urchins that is considered as one of the exotic foods in Philippines. One that has long pines with color black features and the other one which has the short pines with colorful body. It is exotic in the sense that, people are eating it alive or they are not cooking it. It tastes good, sweet and sour when it melts inside your mouth. Other used it as their viand and best to eat when you are on the sea shore.

3.       Tamilok – Not a usually living creature that you can see around, this kind of living organisms can be found in every rotten wood or bakawan or mangroves in Palawan. Not a typical foods that you might try, it is literally a worm. The right term of it is “wood worm mollusk”. It is considered as exotic because you don’t need to cook when you eat it. You just need a vinegar and salt and it is good to go.

4.       Betute – We are familiar with the frogs? Of course we did, this is common animals that we can find around. But maybe you never heard of any restaurant or foods chain having a menu of it? Betute is a kapampangan Specialty; it is a deep fried farm frogs minced with garlic and spices. The taste is good, it is crispy and crunchy and it taste like chicken. Try it!

5.       Ginataang Kuhol – This one is incredibly unbelievable, but we have to believe it. Kuhol is usually found in every rice field. They are living underneath the water and mud. Famers consider as pest in their farm, it slowly destroys the growth plants and it can affect the production of rice fields. However, for some they consider it as food and known to be the blockbuster Pinoy Delicacy in town. It is cooked in coconut milk with different spices.

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Pan Pacifica Manila - Hotel Review

Pan Pacifica Manila is one of the best Hotel in Philippine. Known as one of the finest Hotel and one of the choice of travelers. It is located in Malate Manila within the heart of metropolis, 8 kilometers from the airport and few distance away from the tourist spots that are famous in town. They have excellent services, very accommodating staff and their rooms are spacious and comfortable.

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It is made of modern style and infrastructure and it has earthquake proof. Rooms are installed with safety and security devices, strong wifi, coffee maker inside the room and the place is situated where malls, restaurants, banks and etc are accessible. It is the best place for business travelers, travel bloggers and those who want to experience the luxury services and stay.

Considering how their staff are very attentive to offer their services, just one call away and they will be there, very helpful and respectful to their guest. 

It is big enough for you to take the tour around the hotel. Like any other luxury hotels, Pan Pacifica Manila has a swimming pool, a good deck view at the top to watch the sunset and see the beautiful bay.

Considering this place as one of your choice, you will never regret spending your days and nights with Pan Pacifica Manila. Affordable rooms, excellent and good quality services is their number one priority. 

Information:

website: https://www.panpacific.com

Address

M. Adriatico corner
Gen. Malvar Streets,
Manila City 1004, Malate, Philippines

Telephone: +63 2 318 0788

Toll-Free:

1800 8908 6362
1800 1441 0621

Email: enquiry.ppmnl@panpacific.com

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Swimming with the Fish at Looc Fish Sanctuary Romblon

Looc is one of the prosperous town of Tablas Island. This is next to Odiongan town. Me and my cousins had this thing for discovering new places in our mini island. We love to go on a motorcycle ride which the locals call round Tablas, making a tour of the whole island for the whole day. One of our rides led us to poet of Looc.

It is here where we decided to go and visit their famous fish sanctuary. After paying the fee of 100 pesos per person. This is for the boat fare back and port from the port to the floating cottages. Riding a boat from the port it take us around 10 to 15 minutes before we get to their floating cottages. This floating cottages made with bamboo and some floating materials can accommodate up to 20 persons. Bringing of food is allowed just be reminded not to leave any garbage on the place. The floating cottage has tables and chair where you can have your lunch. They also offer free use of life jackets for those people who don’t know how to swim.

This cottage also has a little small rectangular whole at the center wherein tourist can have a meet and greet with the beautiful fishes. With its sparkling clear water, snorkeling and swimming are the major activities you can do in this place. Also it is a perfect spot for taking sunset photos. A little light house, with some boat can be part of your picture perfect sunset photo. To get here from the port of Odiongan, look for a jeepney bound to Looc. The driver will drop you at the town proper. From there, you can ride a tricycle or motorcycle going to the port of Looc. If you want to experience what the locals love to do – round Tablas adventure, you can ask locals to rent their motocycle for a day.

 Prices vary per type of motorcycle you are going to rent. This place is already featured in a television show namely “Byahe ni Drew”. So what are you waiting for? Make sure to come and explore the exotic beauty of Tablas Island.

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Stunning Beauty of Bon Bon Beach in Romblon

One of my bucket list is to explore Romblon Island as it is our province capital. Being an island it has a lot of beautiful things waiting to be explored and experienced by the tourist. Since my brother works in a shipping company we have the privilege to travel by ship for free! So my two brothers and I visited this unseen beauty of Romblon. As we take off the ship and leave the port a big ROMBLON sign carved from marbles meet our eyes. Mesmerized with its beauty we spent time taking pictures and selfies on that place. While doing so, my brother borrowed motorcycle from his colleague so we could travel the whole island. And our first destination, Bon Bon beach!

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Bon Bon beach is quite far from the port and the center of the island but the ride is worth it. It is a virgin place with no cottages being installed and is not crowded. I remember the time we got there, we are the only people in the place. It is like we own the whole place. We can only hear the wind blowing, the water rolling and some birds singing. Truly a perfect pace to relax. Since there is no cottages here, we look for the shady part of the shore and place our things and set a little picnic for ourselves.

During low tides, the sand bar can be seen from afar making a beautiful way from the beach to the separated island. Sparkling crystal clear sea water, fine sand, blue sky and fluffy clouds are part of the scenery. Some activities you can do here is swimming, camping and snorkeling. The water is so clear that you can see the sea creatures and corals.

To get here, look from shipping company that docks their ships at Romblon port. From the port, you can ask the locals to drop you at the Bon Bon beach or you can rent motorcycle if you know how to drive so that you can tour also on the other part of the island. The fare cost range from 50php – 100 php only.

There you go, a simple but beautiful place to visit, relax and unwind! 

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Monasterio de Tarlac,Tarlac's Mountain Top Monastery

Have you ever visited a monastery on top of a mountain? How about seeing a relic of the True Cross? Or even taking a photo under the huge statue of Jesus Christ?  Well, this could be an awesome adventure and that could only be in Monasterio de Tarlac.

Monasterio de Tarlac is not the old monastery as you might expect. The construction was just concluded by the year 2000. And in every year's visit, the monastery has always have new places developed.

The 30 ft Statue of the Risen Christ on top of the mountain is gaining a popular attraction not only to religious people but also to many. The ground to where the statue is located is covered with flowers, making it look lovely and close to nature. From the top of the
mountain, you can feel the solemn ambiance, with the cold breeze of air. A very majestic feeling.

Aside from the colossal statue, the relic of the True Cross is enshrined inside the monastery chapel. The story goes when St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great was in search of the Cross. Under the Calvary Hill, Jerusalem, she found 3 crosses. Not sure which one of
the three was Jesus', so she sent a dying woman to touch all the crosses. The cross that revived the woman from her condition was declared the True Cross. The cross was passed from one hand to another, generation to generation, split up to smaller pieces. Gratefully, in 2007, a splinter of that cross was sent from Germany to Philippines and then it was enshrined at the baroque chapel of the monastery. The relic is said to be miraculous.

There are still more places you can visit around and near the monastery. One of that is the disney-like construction on the other part of the monastery with designs that resemble towers and castles.That is located at the 20 hectare Tarlac Eco-Tourism Park. So the kids and the kids-at-heart will enjoy the tour.

Community mass are also conducted every day: 6:00 am for weekdays and 10:30 am for weekends. So if you want to attend the mass, be sure to take note of the schedule.

The monastery is situated on top of the Mount Resurrection which is part of the Zambales Mountain Range in brgy. Lubigan, San Jose, province of Tarlac.  There is an entrance fee of 50 pesos. If you wish to get to the Monasterio, ride a bus going to Tarlac then alight to
the Siesta Bus Stop in Tarlac. Ride a tricycle to the Jeepney Terminal going to San Jose, Tarlac. From there, you can rent a jeepney to Monasterio.  Or you can travel via car. From Manila, take NLEX to SCTEX exiting at Hacienda Luisita. Take McArthur Highway to Tarlac
City then turn left just after Sogo Hotel and before SM. Follow the road leading to Brgy Tibag Junction. You can see signages going to Monasterio de Tarlac. For people from North, head to Tarlac City to Uniwide Mall. Follow the service Road and turn right to Carangian
Bridge. From there, you will see markers leading to monastery. The roads are well paved but it will take about 2 or 2 and half of travel going to the mountain top.

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Why people keep coming back to Stone 8 Resort? Find out why!

The province of Nueva Ecija is known for its vast fields, thus tagged as the Food Bowl and Rice Granary of Central Luzon. In this province, agriculture is the primary industry. Most farmers plants rice, corn, onion, garlic, melon and mango. But there are still more interesting
places about the province other than its popular plains and products. It also has the best places to go to during summer.

Speaking of summer, isn't it just the season of the year that many people want to go swimming? And that will be satisfied in one of the resorts in Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija. With the refreshingly cold water, you can never say no to this place. Add the fresh breeze of air and the green scenery, such a relaxing place to spend your weekend with
family or friends.

Whether you want to go on mountain hiking, swimming or just wanting to relax on a fresh new environment, Stone 8 can give you options to enjoy your day.

(1) Mountain Hiking- The trail includes crossing the clear water,climbing up on man made stairs with 808 steps, that leads to the foot of the mountain. The view from there is enticing, as you can see the plains, the trees and the mountains.

(2) Swimming - The free flowing water comes from the mountain that is why the water on the pools is fresh, clear and absolutely cold. Very refreshing!

The resort also offers tables, cottages and even rooms and buildings. Price ranges from 300 to 650 pesos for tables, 500 to 2300 pesos for cottages, 2200 to 3650 pesos for rooms and 10,000 to 15,000 pesos for buildings.

The Entrance fee is 40 pesos per head but they also offer it for free for people celebrating their birthday and for children under 2 years old. They are open every day, all year round. If you plan to go there and you are coming from Manila, ride the bus going to Cabanatuan
Terminal. It is advisable to take the bus with SCTEX route because the travel time is less compared to bus with NLEX route. From the terminal, take a van going to Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija. It will take almost 2 to 2 and half hours before you reach the resort.

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Something Magical happen in this place every 12 noon, Amazing!

Have you ever tried to witness something magical, unusual and amazing things in front of you? We can define magical as the things that are impossible to happen and yet it is happening in front of you. It was a stunning magical indeed and all the people around who witness the said phenomena are amazed. This place is called Enchanted River, the named itself sounds magical that can be heard only from fairy tales?

Enchanted River is located at Surigao, it is natural made attraction where you can see a deep blue in the middle and they it was a cave covered with water. It has 20 to 50 meters wide and it is beautiful place to relax and spend time with family and friends. People from different places visited the place to witness the beauty of this nature made attraction and witness how it is magical and enchanting every 12 noon.

For some locals who live there, it is normal for them to witness what is happening in every 12 noon but for some it is amazing to watch for the first time. Every 12 noon, people are pulled out from the water and the amazing things begin. Despite of enjoying your time swimming the cold water of Enchanted, you can see how beautiful things happens every 12 noon.

The area must be cleared, no one are allowed to swim, throw anything on the water and everyone are asked to keep silence for a while. The music begin to play, they called it enchanting music. While playing slowly the water starts shaking, it’s not the ground are moving but the water creates waves because of these beautiful fishes, big and small are coming out from the hole. They are huge in number that seems someone calling them to show off.

For 30 minutes watching this enchanting moment, the group of people starts to feed them. These fishes are colorful comes in different species and you can name some of it. For 30 minutes of watching fishes swimming around while eating their foods, small one will disappear first then here comes the largest fish and seems they are coming out in a group. There is a blue area in the middle of the river; it is where they are coming out.

Group of fishes appear in front of everybody is magical. They are not trained, and no one owned them. They are coming out from nowhere. This is one of the best thing that you have to witness when you visit Surigao, never miss the Enchanted River.

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